Dave Grohl's introduction of Rush explained to me why I should have cared …. but having the progressive rock genre occupy most of my focus since the early 70s, Rush is one of the "epic" bands that never connected with me. Neil Pert has always been a drummer of the ages, and they are one of the few original bands of that era that live on and still have amazing technical chops and tightness (on par with the best of Crimson and vintage Yes), but damn…. it's always been Geddy's voice that makes my ears bleed. Good for them and their fans that the R&R Hall of Fame gave them the recognition. Blah. Blah. Blah.

Yeah... Geddys voice is really shrill now. Amazing that fans don't care though. I saw him a couple of years ago and the crowd was mixed.. and he wasn't hitting the high notes. No one cared. I think their power lies more in the music and those Yes-like mystical lyrics...And the fact the lead singer (sole) singer plays bass... how many bands does the lead singer play bass?Also, how many bands does the drummer write most of the lyrics?And they sure put out a lot of sound for a 3 dude band.

I like the band, though, too. All three of them are very fine musicians. Geddy Lee has always amazed me at how he can sing lead and still play all those cool bass licks.

Let us not forget, when he's not playing bass, he's playing keyboards, and playing bass pedals/sequencer with his enormous feet.They use some prerecorded effects, but 90% of it is live, badass musicianship.

Geddy has a shrill voice? LOL! Where have you been? :-)Either you love it or you hate it, kinda like Jon Anderson (That chick can really sing!). :-PPersonally, I love it. INDIVIDUALITY. Nobody sounds like that.Respect.

Check him lately... his once clear high voice is being constantly strained. Also, at the award ceremony I think he was just trying too hard and compounded the problem.

And I adore Jon Andersons voice... from Yes to King Crimson to Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howes' Union album to any other number of endeavors... but I hafta say that my fave is his effort with Vangelis... Friends of Mr Cairo.

So amazing how many stages this song goes through... with a powerful ending.

She came, as in the book, Mickey SpillaneThat Saturday night dark masqueradeHad filled his friend with lead, the same, sweetheartBut then, as nothing happens quite the sameInvestigation is the gameHe had to check her story right away - he deadSam Space his buddy Archer first to go he got it - he deadShe spelt it out, how could they know the 'Fatman' got it - he deadHer sister didn't really live at all - confusion - he deadHis chase led to the Fatman, to face the friends of Mr. Cairo!

That night, the double crosser got it rightPretending he was really dimHe slipped to Sam a double gin (Mickey Finn)He woke, the boys had gone, but not his gunThey'd left a note to lead him onThe chase to find the Maltese Falcon - you betEarly thirties gangster moviesSet to spellbind populationFrom Chicago to Hong KongVia Istanbul the Talking TongDirty rats thru' prohibitionMoney flowed thru gangsterismActing out his fantasyIn Hollywoods vicinityThe best part for the best renditionAl Capone he sent to prisonCitizen Kane came fast and quicklyConquerin ol' New York CityPoking fun at superstitionMedia became televisionGive me Cagney any dayOr Jimmy Stewart for PresidentOr Edward 'G' and all those guysWho always shoot between the eyesBetween the eyesBetween the eyes

Father love do you work, do you work for MotherChances could call, and accept that, be no otherScience as it might, disappear correspond with colourChance is the fruit, will outlive, what is now the brotherCall for total wealth to distribute like a pictureIn black and white, give it joy, give it, let it hit youSpoil our existence by extreme gift to populationFather love do you work, do you work for MotherTell me straight be the Godfather be no otherMedia Kings give us now give us total movieNow being here, being now, being here believing

One on one to talk to youLike film stars they get close to youYou've mirrored his appealHe wants you so, he wants to be beside youThen you pass by giving him the other side of youLike the mystics doSo that every time he moves, he moves for youSoul and light can always seeThe meeting of true love and sheThis silent night and I,I guess a lonely mind might seeI've seen love on the screenI've seen a screen goddesss and me, ohhhHow often this, how often, this the power of youAnd so, I must confessWhatever I seeI'm meant to be there with youWith you with you, with you, with you

Silent golden movies, talkies, technicolour, long agoMy younger ways stand clearer, clearer than my footprintsStardom greats I've followed closelyCloser than the nearest heartbeatLonger that expected - they were greatOh love, oh love, just to see themActing on the silver screen, oh myClark Gable, Fairbanks, Maureen O'SullivanFantasy would fill my life and ILove fantasy so muchDid you see in the morning lightI really talked, yes I did, to Gods early dawning lightAnd I was privileged to be, as I am to this dayTo be with you. To be with you.To be with you. To be with you.To be with you.

Turn up the volume so you can hear the crispness.....

State of life may I live, may I loveComing out the sky, I name me a nameComing out silver word "What it is?"It is the very nature of the sound the gameSiamese, Indionese to Tibet treat the lifeAs a game, if you please

Coming up carabi this sense of freedomDerives from a medative stateMovin' on, believe that's it, call it magicThird world, it is I only guessed it

Shablam idi shablam idaShablam idi shablam idaShablam idi shablam ida

Shot to the soul the flame of OroladinThe essence of the wordThe state of independence

Sounds like a signal from youBring me to meet your soundAnd I will bring you to my heart

Love like a signal you callTouching my body, my soulBring to me, you to meet me here

Home be the temple of your heartHome be the body of your loveJust like holy water to my lips

Hey, hey, yes I do know how I surviveYes I do know why I m aliveTo love to be with youDay by, day by, day by day

Hey, heySay aye yaya ohYayah yaya ohBe the sound of higher love today

Hey, hey, time, time again, it is saidWe will hear, we will seeSee it all in his wisdom hearHis truth will abound the landThis truth will abound the land

This state of independence shall beThis state of independence shall beTime, time again, it is saidWe will hear, we will see

See it all in his wisdom hearHis truth will abound the landThis truth will abound the landThis state of independence shall be

This state of independence shall beThis state of independence shall beThis state of independence shall beThis state of independence shall beThis state of independence shall be

And of course this will lead to Jarre and Mike Oldfield and Tangerine Dream... etc.

Crap.. I should have started a separate thread for all this JA & V.LOL.

Outside of this and inside of that, the memory lingers so right, completely as thatWe've loved a long time, be my friend, I need you

Inside of this and outside of thatThere's so much more to finding out how we forever simply feel the way The wayward-winds that hide the storms at night like the winter came, It changed our lives and we were very merry to be thereI love, get used to being this wayI love, once again a story really true creates a sound so good, that it's true

So outside of this and inside of thatThere are words that come with time like love songs they seem self writtenSo true, they seem so trueI work a moments time and feel this is one of life's mysteriesBringing a smile, 'cause I know what it does to youSo I'm trying to pass it thru, trying for you

Countless variations of the memory, the state, the mere emotion of getting 'roundCrazy understandings of the way we tilt the light but it shines when we make the soundDon't live by mistakes, we can dance to your tuneBut in reaching out and touching your loveFeel those countless understandings of the countless many reasons, there are two, offer you my loveCountless understandings of a debt to starving nations, needing love, I tell no lieCountless staring messages, has mortal life reflection, is it spelled out once or twice But there's this whole understanding and it's coming I guess, I knowI hope that you can get into this, to thisI was there and then and thenYou were there and then and thenWe were there, the beginning of timeI was there and then and thenYou were there and then and thenWe are together in timeI was there and then and thenYou were there and then and thenWe were there, the beginning of time

But can you imagine hitting those high notes for 35 years+?Jon has maintained forever, but you do know his voice is shot, and has some major problems? One of the reasons he's not with Yes anymore.I guess I'm more forgiving for vocalists than players, that after decades of singing, it has got to take its toll…

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